New footage from Portugal Air Force shows Air Astana flight emergency landing at Beja air base. On Sunday,Air Astana #KC1388 declared an emergency general emergency after reporting flight control problems to Air Traffic Control. According to ATC, during the first 30 minutes of the pilots attempted to reach the sea for a ditching. At 15.26 UTC…
US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed into the Philippine Sea. US Navy (USN), Carrier Air Wing 5 Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet from USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) crashed into the sea off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa The fighter jet crashed some 250 kilometers (156 miles) east-southeast of Okinawa’s capital city Naha at around 11:45…
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating UFO sightings reported by a number of planes over Ireland. On November 9 at around 7:40 UTC, the pilot of a British Airways flight #BA94 from Montreal contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing…
An Air Astana #KC1388 plane with six crew on board declared an emergency over Portugal on Sunday after experiencing serious flight control problems. The Embraer 190 (reg. P4-KCJ) was in Portugal for maintenance work (a C-check) and took off around 14.30 UTC from an airfield at Alverca, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) northwest of the…
Fly Jamaica flight #OJ256 from Georgetown to Toronto returned to Georgetown due to technical difficulties. The aircraft overran the end of the runway and crossed through the airport perimeter fence after landing. Six persons were injured and rushed to Diamond Regional Hospital. “They are all stable and are being looked at,” Minister of Public Infrastructure,…
France’s civil aviation authority said it had grounded a Ryanair plane yesterday at Bordeaux airport as part of a dispute over money which France says the airline owes. Passengers were not allowed to board the plane and the aircraft was forced to remain on the tarmac. French authorities said Ryanair had to pay back money…
The Boeing’s 737 Completion and Delivery Center in Zhoushan, East China’s Zhejiang Province, which is jointly built with its Chinese partner, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, will be put into operation in December and deliver its first plane, the 737 Max, according to a statement the company sent to the Global Times on…
The cuts are expected to lead to about US$250 million in annualized savings by 2021. The company also announced the sale of what it called a number of non-core assets. Bombardier has struck a deal to sell its Q Series aircraft program and de Havilland trademark to a subsidiary of Longview Aviation Capital Corp. for…
China will need over 7,400 new passenger aircraft and freighters from 2018 to 2037, with a total market value of US $1,060 billion, according to Airbus’ latest China Market Forecast. It represents more than 19 percent of the world total demand for over 37,400 new aircraft in the next 20 years. According to Airbus’ 2018-2037…
Six Ryanair cabin crew members were fired after posing for a photo that showed them sleeping on the floor of an airport in Spain last month. Last month, a photo of a few crew members lying on the floor of the Málaga Airport in Spain went viral on social media. The picture also appeared on…
Lion Air Boeing 737-900ERs clipped a light pole at Bengkulu Fatmawati Soekarno Airport. The pilots of flight #JT633 from Bengkulu (BKS) to Jakarta (CGK) were taxiing to the runway, but encountered difficulty while making their way through the VIP area. They veered left to avoid a parked Batik Air aircraft, but clipped a light pole…
